Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-04-20


Mixed paints, warranted not to crack
or scale, at SouthwOrth's. AZ
Pearson & Co. have several first-class
farms in this county for rent. 80
Try alfalfa, the best grass for this
country. Sold by Noble 81 Nixon. 43
Leave orders for ice with Mr.. Ham,
delIveryman, or with \. ID. Jamison. 40
Our spring assortment of baby shoes
received last week. Wood 81 Vincent.
a brother of w. S. Finney is here,
learning the saddlery and harness bus
mess.
Howard Parker now owns the Stew
art horse, Young Percheron, one of the
best horses in the comfy.
Those who desire can purchase or
subscribe for any newspaper or maya
zine published through the Postofiice
Book store. AZ
Parties desiring Bronze Turkey eggs.
for 50 per setting, should send orders
at once to B. f. Witherspoon, Medi-
cine Lodge, Kansas. Al
Paint your house with ready-mixed
paints, the best in the market, warrant
ed not to crack or scale. Sold only by
/ SOuthwOrth, Medicine Lodge. AZ
County Surveyor f. w. Hill returned.
Sunday, from Caldwell, where he had
been for three weeks, surveying and
plotting new additions to that city.
The Ladies' AID Society will meet
with Mrs. Sanderson, at the parsonage,
on Second avenue, Friday afternoon.
Mrs. T. l.. O'RRYAN. Sec'y.
The sermon to the young people and
children, at the Methodist church was
postponed on account of the rain, but
will be given next Sabbath morning.
The band instruments are being man
ufactured, and will be here in 10 days.
They are triple silver plated. The boys
say they will make music here July 4th.
There are to-day no less than one
hundred men in this city who would
build residences this year if they could
secure desirable lots at reasonable pri-
ces.
The Cary lumber and coal yards in
this city we're last week sold to the
Rock Island Lumber Company. Mr.
Pollard, the manager Of the Cary COM
pany, remains in charge.
The stock of dry goods, millinery, no
tiOns and furnishing goods being sold
at Robinson's old stand. opposite the
Citizens National bank, must he clos
ed out for cash at once, and TO that end,
the price on every article has been
dropped below FIRST cost. Go and be
convinced. AZ
Since our last issue, Barber county
has been visited with heavy rainfall,
continuing with but slight Interrupt
ton from Saturday morning until Sun
day at noon. 1t was not accompanied
by wind or cold and the ground absorb
ed nearly all that fell. Barber county
has bright crop prospects.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK is MA
KING FARM LOANS ON BETTER TERMS
FOR TIE BORROWER THAN CAN BE OF
FERED ELSEWHERE. ALL INTEREST
Is PAYABLE AT THEIR OFFICE, THUS
SAVING EXPENSE OF RENTING THE
MONEY. CONSULT YOUR OWN INTEREST
BY CALLING on THEM BEFORE CON
TRACING FOR A LOAN ON YOUR FARM.
Valley township is now under the
herd law, the county commissioners
having granted the petition asking for
1t, at their last meeting. That town
ship is in the northeast corner of the
county, bounded by Kingman county
on the east and Pratt county on the
north, two herd law counties. The cit
liens of Valley claim that they had TO
adopt herd law for self-protection.
We know Of ten business. firms in
Medicine Lodge that now occupy rent
ed rooms, that would build stores, Off
ces and shops Of their own If they could
buy business lots ct fair prices. And
we know Of twenty business lots on
Main street and twice that many on side
streets, convenient to Main, that are
held at double their actual value.
Something is wrong, when this is the
case.
For several weeks, for good and suf-
ticient reasons, Medicine Lodge has
not been making any fuss about the
new railroads that were to come here :;
but now the bond of secrecy has been
removed and we can say that Medicine
Lodge is TO have another railroad at
once. 1t is to be an extension of the
st. Louis, Fort Scott and Wichita road
from Hazelton. The branch is already
completed to Kiowa.
There is hardly doubt but that the
st. Louis, Fort Scott and Wichita rail-
road will be extended from Hazelton to
Medicine Lodge, and this, too, before
fIost comes. Then, the Kansas and
Panhandle road, or its successor, will
be built here from the northeast, and
n junction of two Gould lines will oc-
cur here. AT this city the lines will be
consolidated into one, and taking a
southwest course, it will penetrate No
Mans Land and the Panhandle.
At their meeting last week, the coun-
ty commissioners selected the First Ma
tional bank of Medicine Lodge as the
depository of the county money, at the
same time requiring that the bank
should give bond in the sum of $780,
600, and pay one per cent. per annum
on the average daily balances, the in
terest to be computed monthly. This
action was taken under a recent act of
the legislature which permitted the
county commissioners to select a de-
pository in counties having a popula-
tion exceeding 1000.